Re: [gentoo-user] Heads up: Gentoo fouls up mail transport agent.

2018-07-21 Thread François-Xavier CARTON
Le 22/07/2018 à 00:10, Mike Gilbert a écrit : On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 5:03 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hello, Gentoo. Right at the moment, I feel a lot of sympathy with Alan Grimes, and need a lot of restraint in avoiding the use of swear words in describing some Gentoo developer. ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Dhclient and buggy ISP

2018-07-21 Thread Roger J. H. Welsh
On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 11:41:22PM +0100 , Mick wrote: > On Friday, 20 July 2018 08:58:53 BST Matti Nykyri wrote: > > Hey > > > > I have a following with Telia ISP and their dhcp-server... I'm using > > dhclient to get dynamic IP from ISP and also to update DDNS. When > I am not familiar with

[gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Gentoo fouls up mail transport agent.

2018-07-21 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2018-07-21 23:04, Grant Edwards wrote: > Manually installing things in /usr/bin or /usr/sbin will often cause > problems because Portage assumes that it controls those directories. > > So don't do that: you should manually install things in /usr/local. > > Or, install qmail using portage, so

[gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Gentoo fouls up mail transport agent.

2018-07-21 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2018-07-21, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > What has happened is that somebody decided to add virtual/mta-1 > surreptitiously to the default software set in Gentoo. This > installs something called nullmailer, which I don't need, didn't ask > for, and fouls up my mail transmission. > > nullmailer

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads up: Gentoo fouls up mail transport agent.

2018-07-21 Thread Ralph Seichter
On 21.07.2018 23:03, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > But what's the proper method to tell my gentoo system that I don't > want crud like nullmailer installed? Install an MTA using emerge, or let Gentoo know that you have installed qmail manually. When you work around portage, you are responsible to keep

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads up: Gentoo fouls up mail transport agent.

2018-07-21 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 5:03 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Gentoo. > > Right at the moment, I feel a lot of sympathy with Alan Grimes, and need > a lot of restraint in avoiding the use of swear words in describing some > Gentoo developer. > > ... > > nullmailer installs a file

[gentoo-user] Heads up: Gentoo fouls up mail transport agent.

2018-07-21 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Gentoo. Right at the moment, I feel a lot of sympathy with Alan Grimes, and need a lot of restraint in avoiding the use of swear words in describing some Gentoo developer. What has happened is that somebody decided to add virtual/mta-1 surreptitiously to the default software set in

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] MBR + GPT + GRUB

2018-07-21 Thread Mick
On Saturday, 21 July 2018 19:47:25 BST Jack wrote: > On 2018.07.21 13:46, Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > A slightly off-topic question arising from a different distro, which > > may > > replicate itself on Gentoo. > > > > I installed Mint-Linux, in a VM. The host PC MoBo has a legacy BIOS > >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] MBR + GPT + GRUB

2018-07-21 Thread Jack
On 2018.07.21 13:46, Mick wrote: Hi All, A slightly off-topic question arising from a different distro, which may replicate itself on Gentoo. I installed Mint-Linux, in a VM. The host PC MoBo has a legacy BIOS system. I used a GPT scheme to create partitions on the virtual disk. The

[gentoo-user] [OT] MBR + GPT + GRUB

2018-07-21 Thread Mick
Hi All, A slightly off-topic question arising from a different distro, which may replicate itself on Gentoo. I installed Mint-Linux, in a VM. The host PC MoBo has a legacy BIOS system. I used a GPT scheme to create partitions on the virtual disk. The first 1M on the virtual disk was left

[gentoo-user] oracle-jdk-bin-11

2018-07-21 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi, is someone aware of the existence of an ebuild for Java 11 e.g. somewhere in the overlays? Or has someone already crafted one and is willing to share it? Cheers, Jörg